Friday, December 18, 2009

For now I've been out of order, and as same as all of my social networks...
http://loveskateshoes.blogspot.com has been out of service temporary...
So wait for latest news in the skate footwear industry soon after I come back from the unreachable jungle...
Getting to much overwhelming, hohoho...
enjoy this naturally raised rambutan tree picture...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

CTS stands for Converse Skateboarding...
Differentiated themself from their "big brother" Nike, when I said big it supposed to say that Nike owns Converse...
They've been really made a team now, since "pops" (Anthony Pappalardo) come in, they adding great street agenda such as Ethan Fowler, Mr. drink a mature beverage, crumpling up and just throw it away Sammy Baca, and last but not least, vert and pool master Rune Glifberg...
They called their team as Converse Skate Ambassador...
Wheww...
These were the arts they had to show their ambassadors...
Pretty much different than any other big brand...

So in other way these two brother shares same interest in the skateboarding footwear pie shares...
But for now I'd just share the latest collection they had, the Revere Mid...

What next ?...
I'd share my thought later on..
Cuz now I gotta catch some sleep and work my ass off tomorrow...
Ciao...

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Well, this quite amusing...Hell it's been, for me...Hehehe...Since there's still tons of skate footwear and major footwear brand that been pounding the skate footwear industry lately, there's still parts of the pie they can share. Well any of those would goin' back to the personal taste of the skateboarder...As long as I know, Habitat Skateboards were part of United Sovereign Sect of Alien Workshop. And now they've been expanding their horizon by releasing Habitat Footwear soon, around spring 2010. Most eligible Habitat riders were spotted rockin' "newly", "fresh" and "unknown" sneaker lately, and if I could named of them were : Marius Sylvanen, Tim O'connor, Austyn Gilette, Guru Khalsa, as well as Alex Davis. Most of them were didn't have footwear sponsor in their list these time, but according to latest Alex Davis Transworld Skateboarding Check Out article, He's listing the "Habitat Footwear" in the Sponsors list. Well big salute to the Habitat team then...Habitat Skateboards were one of many skateboards brands that been raised up the hype by adding Footwear line on their catalogue, and for others we can remember Element Skateboards and old skool brand that bee rose among skateheads for so long, Vision Street Wear. Element has surely stabilized their footwear line up by adding the skate legend Mike V, and new idol Chad Tim Tim.But then to bring the statement by their footwear line gotta be pretty amusing, since there's been "too many" skate footwear brand around. But hey, these is a free trade world need to save...

Okay first of all, these is The QUEST, It's spotted around with Marius Sylvanen rode on it. I love how they've been playing the colors, and how they've been adding the "chuka"-ish silhouette and rejuvenate the look by their own style. The cement and tan were just good as beach scene, and the black one just so my favorite one. But one thing, the slim tongue were just too irritating for me, adds some padded for better fit would be nice though...

The SUMMIT rumored to be Tim O'connor pro model footwear from Habitat. For a quick look, and slight seeing with just less hassle to say, these one just one of many skate sneakers that been joined others hi top hyped scene. Well, for me to many were not as good as it used to be, why they want to develop hi top, when there's been to sketchy for skating. For me hi top, were just to ambience-ing the market segment, and push consumers to knowing their brand, and not for skate regularly. Mid tops were saver choice for me to skate around daily basis, but hi tops were just to intricate for skating daily. But then it's all come back to the personal taste of their skating needs...

Now that's what I talked about, Mid tops...I love Mid tops, especially for daily skating, and these grey and green caught up my attention directly. The IBEX were emblazing late 80's to 90's looks, for those skate around late 80's and 90's, there's been trend to cut off your high to embrace the mid top looks, or just cut it low to get more rebel look. These joint trully simple and classic as we most skateboarders like, were giving "less hassle" and "less politics" kind a look (for me) less I can say, but I hate the synthetic on the grey - green option, while they've been suede-ing the others colorways...

These is just so late 90's. Which is soooo boring for me.

I don't know, for me you can just develop good skate shoes without less hassle, and achieve more than just this !... Yeah I gotta be honest The TRUCE is soooo f**king clean, and too f**king sober. You need to smoke pot first then, to see the beauty in it. I've less recommend on these pair, because it is too sober, to clean, and less achievement. Well I'm not gonna skate with these, even they pound me for free...

HAHAHA, more craps to pounding for...The LARK were just too g*ddamn short, short notice to see, and too short to remember. It's just not special for me, and it's just a bad silhouette overall. I'd never gonna skate with these...Special notes : the Black on Black were so f**king awesome bad, they've just look so hobo...

youwillsoon.blogspot.com write this down "kissing your money goodbye.", and it really is...The BASIN actually not for skate use and since it's a Skateboard-company-make-their-skate-footwear-line-up they've just send their others story at front. These joint actually sporting a retro running style footwear, and their material differs to ecco friendly kind a thing. So be it, but giving more style range on the public unknown brand were adding up a how-could-you-manage-your-brand-image question more. I don't know, maybe it just their shares to impact their consumer more knowledge and education through these style. But I totally agree with youwillsoon.blogspot.com, and hopes Habitat knowing their paths.

Well that's it bro, I'm gonna passed these time to self blanket my self, and just go to bed really soon...I'm so wasted today, by the tax card I had, though I got some big big big help from friend of mine, but still can't see the objectivities through it shares...hehehe...Well see you when I post something more to come then...Bye...

Sunday, November 15, 2009

As I've said before, and due to date of Supra Muska Skytop II release starts at 21 November 2009, which I can't join the rush in queuing the individually numbered Skytop II, cause I've lived outside the world. According to their world tour. Well for now I'd just let my self enjoy the image that been shared by nicekicks.com.
They start the global tour at Colette Paris, France, 21st of November 2009. And ended the world tour at Wish Atlanta, USA, on 7th of December 2009. I don't have any hint bout how much it would priced, and since I've been tryin' to discover how much did it would cost, the more blurry I had bout it, but some say it would cost around $140.00, to $170.00. Well If you interested to purchase one, here you go the shop list you want to sarge to get the SUPRA Muska Skytop II.

What all I want to share here is bout the design, that i've said before. But then, let me give you an opening bout the SUPRA Muska Skytop first of all...
These 2nd Skytop were the latest signature model from Skateboard prodigy, Chad Muska, a professional skateboarder, slash designer, slash DJ, slash street artist, slash businessman, and slash urban celebrity.

Whatever he actually claimed on right now, he's first achievement were professional skateboarder. And these sneaker were eventually still a skate sneaker supposed to be skated. And as Skate prodigy, slashed every talent that he had, he actually have a good ability like a midas king, touch everything and turns it into gold.

Since the release of the 1st Skytop, Supra has been claimed as the premium skate footwear, with their high quality materials, and treatment they've been given to the sneaker, and the buyer itself. Oily leather, waxed laces, extra laces, and good packaging only named a few. All the hype and rush of the 1st Skytop start when Jay-Z performing on stage with Gold package Muska Skytop's, and since then the sneaker easily turns into biggest selling in the SUPRA history itself. Colorways and package for the sneaker easily break the hype and the non skaters can have their to by purchasing the SUPRA NS (non Skate) series, that been specialized for fashion. It's bit different when Angel Cabada (supra CEO) showed the sneaker design, there's lots of laugh and dramatic comment through the 1st release, but then who get the last laugh.
After the hyped and rushed of the Skytop around 2008, Angel Cabada and Chad Muska must be shared some big thought bout how the 2nd Skytop have to look like, remember ! make second hits after big success of the first one never been easy. I've been so obviously diver these madness as F**K since I've been in the footwear design industry for 3 years, creating 2nd hits were crazy.
The sample of the 2nd Skytop's has been leaked around March to April of 2008 and it's been showed up with red leather and had it's high tongue, just look like a Back to the future silhouette.

As you can see, the 2nd skytop has a better design than the 1st one, I might say that. The 2nd Skytop looks good in their layering materials, pattern positioning, and whole of it's silhouette actually makes a better shape than the 1st one, that looked like a more unfinished pattern, and drawn from a A3 sized paper, cutted and formed into a sneaker. The 2nd offer more, there's layers, there's more subtle shape to feet, and for me the 2nd embrace more graces than before.

But for me the single layer vulcanize tape at the red sample, giving more graceness than adding mustache tape in the toe bottom area. The "clean" shape giving more graces, and differ whether you raised up your chin or just look straight a head. But then I realize that these sneaker supposed to be a Skateboard Sneaker that should be maintain better grip, and more reinforcement for the bottom, because the skateboarder needs it to stick them to the board, and achieve better board feeling.

The shiny black patented leather were layering with the grey leather from the quarter area slides through heel, and then layered with the mudguard pattern from quarter and giving more tab accent through ankle and raised to back.

But then my favorite parts were the toebox and the mudguard quarter area, they've been emblazing a classic 80's vulcanizing silhouette, and take it to next future. The clean toebox, covered with the quarter mudguard were so skateboarder like. And that's the way we like it...
Clean, simple, yet strong design...
That's why most celebrity wore it, because the design offer immortal style, matched it with baggy, fitted, or slimmer denim would be no problem, because of it's simple, and classic looks.
And now it's easily change it's pace into the fashion catwalk, celebrity that been rockin' it maybe didn't know that these sneaker actually made for skateboarding, since it's been a Signature model from Pro Skateboarder. But then, who cares it anymore, people that purchasing Skytop were actually an avid urban hypebeast that consume every hyped stuff that been producing by the "nowaday" brands. Skateboarder would bought the other Supra to skate, rather than destroying $130-$150 sneaker by the skating activity. And rather than looks like posser they would keep their sneaker with holes in it to keep it "rebel" and "street" a like. What ever it is, since I've been dedicated myself in the Skateboarding and Footwear industry, I'd giving my honest opinion bout it. Though it's been unclear yet about the overall look of the latest Skytop, I just hyped up by the news, and scene outside.
For me, I'd purchase another 1st Skytop maybe 2 more to complete my quest. I've already set myself with the Skytop Wildlife Package, and wanted more. Maybe the Black Crocks and the White leather one, before I quest the 2nd one. But it would give me more trouble, since I lived in Indonesia and there's less Sneaker store that distributing SUPRA, legit one. So I'll just waiting any to chances to get these joint as soon as I can manage myself...
For you, that can manage yourself to purchasing these joint, enjoy it. You'd purchasing what I called "sneakers that change the whole game"...
By the way, Chad says Hi !...

Saturday, August 29, 2009

I've made the loveskateshoes as my e-mail address since 2000 as just for fun...

Then I recognized special thing within the name, that showing love of what I like the most, my entire life...

I've used to be average kids with small mount of money that I could use to purchase a sneakers, ain't the same with most of wealth kid that can easily havin' this or that, and have a pile of sneakers at their house...

My skating were started at the age of 7 or 8, elementary era...

I used to watch my older cousin skate with their orange plastic skateboard, it's late 80's to early 90's I might presume, then I ask my father to purchase me a skateboard, I live in the Makassar back then, so it's hard to get a skateboard at there. Then after I got my own, I hardly have a big crush with it, even though at that time I didn't make any skate progression to higher level cuz, there's no skate community at Makassar back then. I skate my house, swerving around my parents collection of their big pottery, learn how to tic-tac (though I don't know their name was), learn how to snap the tail without knowing it supposed to be the initial start of ollie-ing, slapping at garage, and worried my mom, just because my early age to learn skateboard. Oh yeah at that time I didn't wear any skate shoes or most nowadays kid might said rockin' kicks, yeah rockin' kicks, how supposed I know, I got no information bout it (but then I thanks Allah for that)...

Why I thanks my god for didn't letting me get all the information I need to knowing skateboard ?...

Cuz then I realize, I could continue skating instead of schooling, hehehehe...

Then I got moved to Jakarta at 1992 and still have my skateboard, but moving in to bigger city gives me different view, cuz know I had lots of friend in my neighborhood (since I just have a friend around my neighborhood at Makassar, Ikhsan Sube to be exact), and they all have big love to soccer that's what o what I might getting into then. I realize then, older, now I mean, I have a big love to sports, whatever the sport is...

So I've left aside skateboarding and jump to formal shape of sports, and I enjoy it so much, I play soccer, basketball, volley and most of sports I could find...

At Jr. High school, most of the "cool kids" at school actually skate, but I'm not cuz honesty they were not the exact pack that i want to join with. You know the initial state of cool kids at High school used to be bullyer, they think they were the "it" boys and girls, i'm cool kids kind a, and I'm not like that...

I just.....me...

Then I got second strike comin' up, I got big love to sneakers. At that time it was 1996, and it was NBA mania and most of kids collecting and trading NBA's card, and collecting Basketball Sneakers. Unfortunately, me just can have the collecting and trading the NBA's card, cuz it's been so expensive to collecting Basketball Sneakers at that time, for me, though might get different to other kids...

After that it just dealing so so, I scooping around with local sneakers that my parents allow me to have (which I have to thanks my parent they thought me a good lesson, the initial state of be gentle to your wishes). The 1st Basketball sneakers that so major for me is Fila Basketball Shoe, I can't remember the name was but it mostly change my vision back then, then I got Converse Skatestar, which most kid wore them at 1997. My father brought me a pair of white and black Air Jordan XII around 1997, when he got his business trip to USA, damn ! yo know, I got it first cuz there's still no ads around Indonesia at that time that showing these pair of new AJ. Unfortunately, the pair I have were to small, my father forget the size I have, so I can't wear them long enough, but then again, Thanks dad, love you...

Then I moved to Bogor and got into Sr. High School it's kind a shock for me, from the big city of jakarta then move to Bogor, start over from zero, well again thanks Allah for that...

At Bogor, I start things over, I've found a skate community that fixed me well, and through that my skills have been brushed up. As well as my love for sneakers, it rose despite the economy breakdown Indonesia had on 1998. I skate well for years, thanks for friends and parents that letting me to, and then I collect, and filled my sneakers enthusiasm more. Ain't just rockin' them to show off, I slashed with em', I skate around with sneakers I had, and the stories goes on...

So start now, I'll share, some of my big enthusiasm for sneakers, and skate sneakers more...